Friday, 14 March 2025

JAI 742 inspiration challenge - leafy get well

Handmade get well card using Stampin Up Country Flowers stamps and dies, and coloured with Stampin Blends alcolhol markers - card by Diane Barnes - colourmehappy - cardmaking - stampinupcards

Hello & welcome to this week's Just Add Ink Challenges Design Team share.
I'm away at the annual Stampin' Up! Onstage event in Brisbane so I'll have to keep this post brief. This week is a photo inspiration challenge featuring a tropical garden scene that I'd love to be able to relax in.  I chose to focus on the tropical plants, furniture, and colours in the image using the Country Flowers stamps and dies bundle. Here's how it turned out.

Friday, 28 February 2025

JAI 740 colour challenge - beach day birthday

Handmade beach themed card using Stampin Up Beach Day stamps and dies. Card by Diane Barnes, Independent Demonstrator in Australia - cardmaking - stampinupcards - stampinupideas - stampinupaustralia - stamping
Hello & welcome to this week's Just Add Ink Challenges Design Team share. This week is
a colour challenge to use Night of Navy, Cherry Cobbler, Pretty in Pink and white in a project. The inclusion of pink and red together was a bit of a puzzle but I thought a beach theme could work. I teamed the Beach Day stamps and dies with some striped papers, and this is how it turned out.

Friday, 14 February 2025

JAI 738 sketch challenge - Beautiful Butterflies window card

Handmade window card with beautiful butterflies and floral-gingham vellum. Card by Diane Barnes - independent demonstrator in Sydney Australia - colourmehappy - cardmaking - stampinupcards

Hello & welcome to this week's Just Add Ink Challenges Design Team share. This week is a sketch challenge and I do enjoy a sketch. I thought it would be fun to one of the sketch squares a window so that's where I started. The Beautiful Butterflies stamps and dies bundle came out again, teamed with some Floral and Gingham vellum. Here's how it turned out.

Friday, 31 January 2025

JAI 736 Just add bling - Beautiful Butterflies milestone birthday

 
Hello & welcome to this week's Just Add Ink Challenges Design Team share. This week is a Just Add challenge and we have to add a touch of bling. Easy peasy! I mixed and matched some new goodies from the Jan - April Mini catalogue with other supplies to make a birthday card with a surprise inside for a dear friend's milestone birthday. Here's how it turned out.

Friday, 17 January 2025

JAI 734 Just add something new blog hop - 4 Wildflower Birthday cards


Welcome to a new year of Just Add Ink challenges and a fun full team blog hop to celebrate. You may have arrived from the lovely Ann Alexander's blog or some other way. In any case, hello and I hope you enjoy my projects.

This challenge and hop theme is to Just Add Something New. I'm fortunate to have some beautiful Stampin' Up! goodies from the new Wildflower Birthday suite so I've chosen to use it to make some birthday cards - we all need lots of them, right?  I've also been playing around with an idea to use a simple layout to make multiple cards with different looks using folds or cuts. So take a look at 4 different cards with the same layout used in different ways.